Can being happy help me fight infection?
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The Importance of Being Good at Dealing With Viral Infections
The fast pace of modern living and all the things we have to keep on top of has taken us a long way from those ancestors sitting around the fire. Hanging out with our tribes during an age with no doctors meant that our immune systems were optimized to deal with the sort of enemy most likely to take our social humans down. Now we specialize in living lifestyles of stress chronically sort of unstable insecure worried about you know are we going to be able to keep our job or get our book contract this kind of stuff runs a constant low-grade drizzle of stress biology flowing into our body. Our bodies really weren't made for that.
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